I agree completely. Sean
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my > > machine to be making decisions as to whether it is > > appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be > > making those decisions because the machine is > > unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as the > > user, am the one who has to pay for my ignorance. > (and not the poor machine, I suppose ;) ... ) > > Many windows users are uncomfortable with this idea, > > and that is perfectly sensical. (don't think that word > > exists, but hey, opposite of nonsensical, right?) They > > ought to just stick to windows, the inferior system > > that doesn't let you make mistakes (or intelligent > > decisions) and instead makes them for you. > > Whow, all those super intelligent admins here ... I for all have many > times forgotten to unmount the floppy before taking it out, not to > talk about the users in our computer pool. (If you as an admin had to > come and help out the following user who can't use the drive then, > like me, you would maybe think a little bit more differently about > that.) > > > Unlike many others, I don't share the view that "linux > > needs to be made more newbie friendly." Doing that > > will kill everything that made it great, and turn it > > into another Windoze. > > I can't see how desktops like Gnome or others have taken away the > console from you, so you CAN both put in user friendlyness in the > system and have all Unix power remaining at the same time. > > > I don't care if the entire > > world doesn't all use GNU systems, as long as I have > > them to get my work done. > > But maybe without all this growing newbie user base GNU and Linux > wouldn't have developped as much as they do now. > > > If somebody doesn't > > understand, I will be helpful and try to explain, but > > if they don't want to tolerate a system with a > > learning curve then they don't have to use it, and > > probably don't deserve to. Leave this domain to those > > of us who do care to learn. > > I wonder if 'learning' really involves to care about remembering > whether a floppy is mounted or not -- shouldn't using a computer > involve that it remembers just such stupid things for you? (Sure you > are using some scripts and cron instead of remembering all those > commands and tasks you seldomly has to do, aren't you?) > > > There are times in Word when > > I need to use a lowercase letter /i/ as a word but it > > doesn't think I should. This is precisely the reason > > we go to alternatives to M$, because M$ software > > always thinks it's smarter than we are and never is. > > So don't go bringing M$isms to us and our > > alternatives, please. > > (Talking about learning curves --) this is a user preference and can > be turned off (it's another question if it should be turned on by > default) -- you can have the same behaviour in emacs too. > > I'm not pleading for 'more power to the machine, less for the user who > is knowing what she/he does', but I think my intelligence should be > allowed to concentrate on more meaningfull things as mounted or > unmounted floppies; but then there are things like autofs or other > 'intelligent' programs which can take away those stupid tasks from me > -- let's work for making these tools (and their installation scripts) > more perfect, so these things don't bother us any more further on. > > Greetings, > joachim > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
